The Global Village
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of 100 people, with all the existing human ratios
remaining the same, it would look something like this:
In 1990
In 2005
58 Asians
12 Africans
15 Europeans (including Soviet Union)
8 Latin Americans
5 North Americans
1 Oceanian
60 Asians
14 Africans
12 Europeans
8 Latin Americans
5 North Americans
1 Oceanian
52 would be female, 48 would be male
70 would be non-white, 30 would be white
50 would be female, 50 would be male
80 would be non-white, 20 would be white
16 would speak Mandarin
9 would speak English
8 would speak Hindi or Urdu
5 would speak Spanish
6 would speak Russian
4 would speak Arabic
14 would speak Mandarin
8 English
8 would speak Hindi/Urdu
7 Spanish
4 Russian
4 Arabic
30 would be Christian
33 Christians
(18 Catholics, 8 Protestants, 3 Orthodox)
17 Muslims
13 Hindus
6 Buddhists
5 Animists
21 all other religions, including atheists
22 Muslims
15 Hindus
6 Buddhists
14 non-religious, agnostics, atheists
10 all other religions [1 would represent Sikhs, Jews,
Spiritists, Baha'is, Confucians, & Jains (and a few others)]
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's
wealth, and all 6 would be from the United States
5 people would possess 32% of the entire world's
wealth, all of them from the US
20 people would have 75%; 20 others 2%)
33 would be children (half of them immunized)
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would die each year, 3 would be born
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
33 would be children
80 would live in substandard housing
34 adults would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would die each year, 2 would be born
2 would have a college education
7 would own a computer, 7 an automobile
(76 electricity: 42 radios, 24 TVs, 14 telephones)
89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual
For sources, see: http://odtmaps.com/behind_the_maps/population_map/state-of-village-stats.asp.
(There are some inconsistencies due to rounding, and taking from various versions of the sources.)
What is History? -- Some Quotations
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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the
reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
Tacitus (ca. 56 - ca. 117), Roman senator and historian
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of
preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever
shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian diplomat and philosopher
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
Lord Henry St. John Bolingbroke (1678-1751), British politician
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
Voltaire (1694-1778), French Enlightenment philosopher
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the
past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Anglo-Irish statesman
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
Napoleon (1769-1821), French military & political leader
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Georg Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist
History is the self-consciousness of humanity.
Johann Gustav Droyson (1808-1884), German historian
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under
circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from
the past. Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest
emancipation.
Lord John Dalberg-Acton (1834-1902), British historian
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events
to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.
Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), Dutch historian
The supreme purpose of history is a better world.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), US president
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana (1863-1952), (Spanish) philosopher
We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.
Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929), British historian
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) in A Room of One's Own (1929)
In mass societies, myth takes the place of history.
William Bossenbrook (1897-ca. 1970), US historian
History is not a catalogue but … a convincing version of events.
A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990), British historian
[History is] not factual at all, but a series of accepted judgments.
Geoffrey Barraclough (1908-1984), British historian
History isn't really about the past--settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
Ken Burns (1953-), US documentary filmmaker
History is, indeed, an argument without end.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007), US historian